Here's to the Crazy Ones ... I had a meeting the other week with two of the savviest people in the U.S. policing world. That meeting unleashed from me a torrent of...
A Tale of Two EBPs, Vol IIIIn this installment of "As the EBP World Turns," we return to our heroes and heroines at VicPD and London PS to see how they are faring...
Evaluating qualitative research - an ideaI was recently asked to work on a review of the existing Canadian literature on missing persons. In theory, this should be an easy task:...
A Proposition that Will Scare the Hell out of Some PeopleThe other week I was engaged in a discussion with a frontline officer on the interminable question of how do you get research project...
If We’re Going to Use Qualitative Research for Public Policy, then We Need Better StandardsA while back I read a report that was released with some fan fare. It was a study offering public policy recommendations on the criminal...
Improving Rigor in Qualitative ResearchIt’s time to revisit one of my favourite topics: improving rigor in qualitative research. What is this, you say? Anyone who has ever...